Freestyle - A competition in which any maneuver or movement is allowed and competitors are
judged on their artistic expression, acrobatic skill, and athletic expertise.
Labs - A place providing opportunity for experimentation, observation, or practice in a field of study.
6/20/08
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. - Stewart Brand
4/15/08
People are inherently self-centered. - Jonathan Neddenriep
4/08/08
Perception is reality. - Business principle relayed to me by David Cohen
3/25/08
Dicovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyl
3/12/08
YouTube, buoyed by Google cash, can afford to challenge entertainment conglomerates in court. Not everybody else can. - News article by Greg Sandoval
3/5/08
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay
3/5/08
I don't believe in the no-win scenario. - James T. Kirk in reference to the Kobayashi Maru exercise, he cheats to win
1/21/08
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison
1/17/08
A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing. - Warren Buffett's philosophy
1/12/08
Whenever Antaeus touched the Earth (his mother), his strength was renewed, so that even if thrown to the ground, he was invincible.
12/24/07
Talent does what it can, Genius does what it must. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
10/2/07
The brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things - Professor Randy Pausch
10/2/07
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. - Dan Stanford
9/13/07
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. - Les Brown
9/12/07
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. - Shel Silverstein
5/31/07
You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead. - Steve Jobs quoting a Beatles song to reference to Steve and Gates' relationship
5/2/07
Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something, you got a dream, you got to protect. People can't do something themselves they tell you you can't do it. You want something go get it. PERIOD! - Will Smith Pursuit of Happyness
4/13/07
I do think building rich internet applications is an important part of web 2.0. I don't want to dismiss it, because we are able to build richer application platforms today. But it's ultimately about network effects, and where do you build services that get better the more people use them? And it's also about the databases that get created as a result of those network effects. - Tim O'Reilly
4/11/07
I don't think we would have gotten where we got without the Netscape deal and we certainly wouldn't have gotten the Netscape deal without a really valuable lesson in persistence. - Joe Kraus
4/11/07
We were too young to realize that existing companies' biggest problem is legacy. Period. They can't focus on new businesses because they've got to manage their old ones. - Joe Kraus
4/11/07
"Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts."
3/25/07
One thing we learned from our research with users is that most people don't click on the "next page" link. So, we got rid of it. We're now finding that people who use Live.com look at more search results than they used to.
3/15/07
This is not to say that the team does not collaborate on decision making across their respective areas, but making each person the ultimate decision maker over their area paid huge dividends for MyBlogLog.
3/15/07
In times of great trial and when disaster strikes I used to ask, where is God? But now my plea has changed. Instead of asking, where's God? I ask, where are God's people? - Gary Haugen From International Justice Mission
3/8/07
You can do no great things, just small things with great love. - Mother Teresa
3/8/07
There's nothing worse than a rock star with a cause - Bono
2/23/07
The more we take, the less we become. A fortune of one that means less for some. - Sarah McLachlan
2/21/07
Life is a gift of God. It is a gift to be protected, defended, promoted. - Father Robert Ochola
2/21/07
I know a girl she puts the color inside my world. (That would be Michell for me!) - John Mayer
2/20/07
Growth: Tune homepage, feature differentiation. Viral, embedded players, and "send to a friend" buttons to increase visibility. - JumpCut Case Study
2/16/07
maintain a "healthy disregard for the impossible," - Larry Page
2/14/07
Great companies are built by entrepreneurs who want to change the world. They have a basic belief that they will be rewarded for either defining a new market or redefining an old one. They do not want to be bought by Google or Yahoo!, they want to be the next Google or Yahoo!. My parents used to tell me two things about starting businesses, "if it's easy, everyone would be doing it" and "easy money seldom is easy." - Gilman Louie at Alsop Louie
2/2/07
1/11/07
"Some men see things as they are and say why - I dream things that never were and say why not." - George Bernard Shaw
1/11/07
"I am only one, But still I am one. I can not do everything, But still I can do something. And because I can not do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Edward Everett Hale
12/13/06
The best marketing in the world is to give people products they love. Give them things they want to tell others about. Make your customers your salespeople. - Jason Fried of 37Signals
12/13/06
"Jim made it clear that their goal is to help their users, not to maximize the company's profit," - Ben Schachter about Craigslist, UBS Internet analyst
12/11/06
Reid Hoffman [an early investor in Flickr] said, "You can always do it again. And the amount of money that you'll make on this will change your life in a way that you'll be able to be entrepreneurs the rest of your lives."
11/29/06
Yea, I need you, I need you to hate, So I can use you for your energy - 50 Cent
11/29/06
I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said "I am terribly sorry but there is nothing I can do for you that you can't do for yourself." He said "Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that would help." So I sat with him a while and then I asked him how he felt. He said, "I think I'm cured. No, in fact, I'm sure. Thank you Stranger, for your therapeutic smile." - Bright Eyes from the song "Bowl Of Oranges"
11/26/06
Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength. - Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, Netflix
11/25/06
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you succeed. - Chinese proverb from Bob Parsons, CEO, Go Daddy
11/17/06
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
11/17/06
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
11/17/06
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. " - Albert Einstein
10/15/06
Most Inventors and engineers I've met are like me - they're shy and they live in their heads. They're almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone - best outside of corporate environments, best where they can control an invention's design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee. Because the committee would never agree on it! - Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith from iWoz
9/30/06
At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. - Grey's Anatomy
9/21/06
"To do great work, you have to have a pure mind. You can think only about the mathematics. Everything else is human weakness. Accepting prizes is showing weakness." - Mikhail Gromov about Grigory Perelman
9/18/06
"Those who risk nothing, do nothing, achieve nothing, become nothing" - David Jefferies (motorcycle racer)
9/17/06
"we don't have a formal way of doing this, Paul just went ahead and did it."
9/15/06
Heard an interesting saying today: "Do well by doing good."
